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008 970131s1998 ilu b s001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPS228.A6$bM66 1998
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100 1 $aMonroe, William Frank,$d1952-
245 10 $aPower to hurt :$bthe virtues of alienation /$cWilliam Monroe.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$cc1998.
300 $axi, 243 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aStrategies, performances, virtues -- A performance paradigm -- Reading, empathy, alienation -- Virtue criticism as cultural criticism -- Necessary troublemakers -- "Heaven's graces" : gnostic strategies -- "Sweetest things" : aesthetic strategies -- "Nature's riches" : parabolic strategies -- Reluctant performers -- "Others but stewards" : T.S. Eliot's gnostic impulse -- "Lords and owners" : Vladimir Nabokov's sequestered imagination -- "The basest weed" : Donald Barthelme's parabolic fairy tale.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aSocial isolation in literature.
650 0 $aBoredom in literature.
650 0 $aViolence in literature.
650 0 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
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